"My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it."

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"My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it."

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"My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives."

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"I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that."

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Pam Brown, American Poet

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"I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest."

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"I had a director who told me a story about a fan who had commented on how nice it was to see her sister laughing and how happy the show made her. I like to make people happy and make them laugh."

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"The coolest thing is that my sister and I, you know, we've done what a lot of people have not been able to do. Which is to have our own careers, together."

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"My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters."

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"When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs."

Tommy Shaw, American Musician

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"At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered."

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"You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person."

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"When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it."

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"Love's a recurring theme through my work."

Work

"With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things."

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"I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!"

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"After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration."

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